Www1And www2 final exam

Question 0

What did they call places where people were in shacks due to the great depressions?

Answer 0

Hoovervilles

Question 1

Which new deal programs still exist today!

Answer 1

Social security

Question 2

During the Great Depression unemployment reached its highest level between which two dates?

Answer 2

Unemployment reached its highest between 1929 and 1933

Question 3

What is the stock market crash, bank holiday, and the dustbowl results of?

Answer 3

The Great Depression

Question 4

What were three causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 4

Buying on margin, overproduction, and the stock market crash.

Question 5

What increased as a result of prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?

Answer 5

Bootlegging of alcohol

Question 6

To find the Harlem Renaissance.

Answer 6

Amounts of time for prosperity for African-Americans in Harlem.

Question 7

Define speakeasies

Answer 7

Speakeasies were an illegal bar

Question 8

Who were flappers?

Answer 8

Flappers were woman who wore short dresses and smoke and drank.

Question 9

In the 1920s the revised Ku Klux Klan targeted which groups?

Answer 9

African-Americans, Jews

Question 10

What was one main reason for the rest of organize crime during the 1920s?

Answer 10

Prohibition

Question 11

What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of World War I?

Answer 11

Immediate cause was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 12

In 1914, why did fighting increase rapidly from a local conflict in Europe to a world war?

Answer 12

Alliance system

Question 13

What type of fighting was most characteristic of warfare in World War I?

Answer 13

Trench warfare

Question 14

Why was the United States drawn into World War I?

Answer 14

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 15

What was the purpose of Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points?

Answer 15

To ensure peace after the war and prevent wars from happening in the future.

Question 16

At the beginning of World War I, Pres. Woodrow Wilson continue the traditional foreign-policy of United States by doing what?

Answer 16

Remaining neutral

Question 17

What was the Zimmerman note?

Answer 17

Germany sent a telegraph to Mexico to convince them to get Texas, Arizona, and California against the United States.

Question 18

World War I began with what incident?

Answer 18

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Question 19

The sinking of what ship helped insight the American public against the Germans in World War I?

Answer 19

The Lusitania

Question 20

What was Pres. Wilson’s peace plan for World War I called in which he called for peace without victory?

Answer 20

14 points

Question 21

Many senators who opposed United States membership in the league of Nations argued that joining the league would involve a nation in what?

Answer 21

Future wars

Question 22

What does “seward’s folly” refer to?

Answer 22

It refers to the United States buying Alaska and people thinking there was no resources but there was resources in Alaska and it was rich in gold

Question 23

What was the main purpose of the open-door policy, announcement United States in 1899?

Answer 23

The main purpose was to guarantee the rights of all nations to trade with China on an equal basis.

Question 24

What was the event that started the beginning of World War II?

Answer 24

When Germany invaded Poland

Question 25

Which event brought the United States directly into World War II?

Answer 25

The Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II

Question 26

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. Some Americans use the statement to justify which foreign-policy in the 1920s and 1930s?

Answer 26

Isolationism

Question 27

What was a kamikaze fighter

Answer 27

A kamikaze fighter is a Japanese pilots who crashes their plane into a ship to make an explosion which kills them and the people on the ship.

Question 28

What the lend lease act do?

Answer 28

The Len- Lease act allowed the United States to lend or lease supplies to Britain and other nations fighting the Nazis

Question 29

Describe the island hopping strategy.

Answer 29

The island hopping strategy was a technique when the Marines would go to different islands every couple days to confuse Japan and defeat them during World War II.

Question 30

What did the allies do on D-Day?

Answer 30

Invaded Normandy France

Question 31

During World War II this poster was used primarily to what?

Answer 31

Gain financial support for the war.

Question 32

During World War II, how did many women experience a change in the role on the homefront?

Answer 32

Woman now worked jobs formerly held by men.

Question 33

Which event ended the Great Depression?

Answer 33

Beginning of World War II

Question 34

In America, which World War II action was later determined to be a violation of civil liberties?

Answer 34

Interment of Japanese-Americans in internment camps.

Question 35

Which situation was a direct result of the Holocaust and other atrocities committed by the nazis during World War II?

Answer 35

War crime trials in Nuremberg.

Question 36

What was the reason Pres. Harry Truman decided to use atomic weapons against Japan?

Answer 36

To end the war while limiting the loss of American lives.

Question 37

What did the war crime trials of Germany and Japanese military officials following World War II establish?

Answer 37

Individuals can be held responsible for wartime atrocities against civilians.

Question 38

Pres. Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan was primarily based on his belief that invading Japan would result in what?

Answer 38

An invasion of Japan would result in American excessive casualties

Question 39

Atomic bombs were dropped during World War II on which two Japanese cities?

Answer 39

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Question 40

During World War II, how did the federal government react to shortages of various goods?

Answer 40

Rationing certain products

Question 41

League of Nations

Answer 41

Result of the Paris peace conference goal was to settle international disputes and bring peace.

Question 42

United Nations

Answer 42

Goal was to prevent another conflict like world war 2 took place after world war 2

Question 43

Which event led to the passage of laws the created safer working conditions?

Answer 43

Triangle fire

Question 44

What did the 1906 publication of Upton Sinclair book the jungle help to expose?

Answer 44

The conditions immigrant workers and the Chicago meat lacking industry.

Question 45

What was a major goal of the reformers during the progressive era?

Answer 45

Opposition to corruption

Question 46

What does the cartoon illustrate Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's attempt to do?

Answer 46

He established antitrust laws to take powers away from big businesses, leaders, such as John G Rockefeller

Question 47

Which president is known as it's trustbuster?

Answer 47

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 48

Which nations of the United States go to war against at the end of the 20th century in which most of the fighting took place in Cuba?

Answer 48

Spain